Eko & Sen Hea: A Journey Beyond

The 2010 Kinetic Cinema series kicks off with a night of dance on film curated by renowned filmmaker Carmella Vasser-Johnson.    

Wednesday, February 24 @ 7:00pm · FREE   

Institute of Contemporary Art · University of Pennsylvania
118 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289 · 215.898.5911   

Victoria Marks & Deborah May: Mother's and Daughters

Kinetic Cinema  

is a New York based screening series that explores the intersection of dance and the moving image.  Organizer Anna Brady Nuse invites a special guest from the dance and film communities to share the films and videos that have inspired and influenced their own work.       

Note on Program from Carmella Vasser-Johnson:     

When I was first approached about sharing a program of dance films that influence and inspire the work that I produce, I was immediately reminded of a pivotal point in my career: in 1999 I joined a group of dance-media makers from across the country and Canada for a fellowship program mentored by a prestigious group of leaders in the field. Over the course of many months I worked with pioneers of dance film like Jac Venza, Merrill Brockway and Girish Bargava (of Dance in America) and with the talented and culturally diverse dancers of the UCLA community. I was enriched by the beauty of California’s ocean and mountains. My cup runneth over. I had only recently changed hats from being a dancer myself to working on the other side of the lens as a videographer/editor/producer. Through this program, I was immersed in a milieu that allowed me to see work from my colleagues and other artists from around the world, stretching my perspective on how to capture dance in two dimensions. I could not get enough of watching and dialoguing with other creators on how they approach their work.  

The films that I share with you in this program represent images, ideas and relationships from that time that remain vital for me today. My work now, as at the beginning, takes an archival or preservational approach. But I also long to see dance in everyday spaces, done by all kinds of people. Some of the selections here satisfy that wish as well.    

Photo: "Dancing Camera Girl" by Flickr user geishaboy500, used under Creative Commons License.

Attend the ‘Dance with Camera’ Exhibition before Kinetic Cinema at The Institute of Contemporary Art.

An exhibition and a screening program that explores a crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. The exhibition features art works in film, video, and still photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled visual artists to record bodies moving in time and space. Screenings elaborate the show’s theme with iconic dance films, ranging from Busby Berkeley’s Hollywood musicals to Maya Deren’s avant-garde films.  

The exhibition’s curator, Jenelle Porter, offers more than a century of filmed dance and dancing film, from the Lumière Brothers in 1896 to Flora Wiegmann dancing beside an LA freeway in 2007.  

Carmella’s Bio: 

Carmella Vassor-Johnsons’ connection to dance began as a performer having been a member of the Philadelphia Dance Company, Civic Ballet Company and Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Co.. Through her video production company Wild Child Productions, Carmella lends her sensitivity and knowledge of the craft to the arts community through the documentation of dance and the integration of media in stage works. Ms. Vassor-Johnson was awarded a Pew Fellowship for the National Dance/Media Project at the University of California (Los Angeles) and began her relationship with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2000 as resident videographer and editor. She has produced four educational documentaries for this prestigious organization. She co-directed, with Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer, the documentaries Eko & Sen Hea: A Journey Beyond, World Tea Party, part of the feature-length World Festival of Sacred Music for PBS-Los Angeles, Creating Across Cultures, commissioned by the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, and Standing at the Edge, We Dance for WYBE-PBS Philadelphia. Her other credits include the experimental video, Endangered Species, an adaptation of the stage work created and performed by hip hop pioneer Rennie Harris, and Quasi Normal, which follows choreographer Susanna Linke as she creates a new work for Jeanne Ruddy Dance. Her documentaries and experimental work have been broadcast on public television and have screened throughout the country including at the Festival of Independents (Philadelphia) and Dance and Camera Festival (New York).  

Doug Elkins with Kaya, a student at Beacon High School, NYC Screen Grab

Tuesday, February 23 at 8:00 pm

WHERE THE DANCE IS: Doug Elkins at Beacon School.  A 16-minute documentary directed by Marta Renzi

at
Duo Theater
62 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave & Bowery in NYC

At this Audience Choice screening you’ll see five short movies and will be given a ballot to rate each film. The highest rated films will be screened at the Festival in April, 2010.

The Duo Theater screening room is a charming and intimate turn of the century theater with wide aisles for viewing comfort. Each evening’s programming will last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Here’s the info on tickets and the other films showing in the series:

https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=6TH4&GUID=

For news of other upcoming Renzi events:

http://martarenzi.blogspot.com

Announcing Movement Media’s YouTube Channel: FilmingDance4web Video Dance Channel

Featuring Artistic Video dances made by amazing choreographers, dancers, video artists, film directors, dance companies, and beginning film makers interested in making dance for camera.   

Join Our Videodance Community of Artists by sharing your work with us.

Choreographer, Christine Soriano. Photo by Rex Miller

Types of videos featured on Video Dance Channel: 

• Dance Installations from Museums 
• Works created for Video Art Festivals
• Dance Films featured in Dance Film Festivals
• Urban Dance Projects
• Dance Company Artists: Choreography and Movement for Camera
• Creative Stories and Video Art developed by Artists from across the Globe.  
• Flashmob Dance Videos
• Dance ‘Webisodes’
• Silly, ‘Just for fun videos’
• Videos by Emerging Artists within the Videodance Community

Movement Media helps Emerging Film Artists develop creative projects.  

Photo by Lois Greenfield

• Attend our Meet-up Groups to Practice Filming Dance (dates and locations to be announced in up-coming weeks).  
• Your videos can be featured on our channel for viewing, feedback, and discussion by artists in the videodance community.  

Your videodance may be:

• featured on our Video Dance Channel 
• chosen for our Kinetic Cinema Screenings,
• or showcased at our annual UMove Online Videodance Festival

 

Movement Media also offers services to help dance companies, choreographers and other artists develop work for film festivals, art installations, and other film projects. 

Urban Playground Quartet at the Awesome Arts Festival

• After the touring of your work, we would be happy to feature your work in Movement Media’s Kinetic Cinema Screenings or for other educational purposes. 

• If you would like to work with Movement Media on a dance film, contact us at movementmedia@pentacle.org  

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from Moscow’s 2007 Video Art Festival PUSTO

http://www.youtube.com/user/FilmingDance4web  

Choreographer and Dancers:  Dina Khusejn, Olga Dukhovnaya

Video Art:  Konstantin Telepalov

FilmingDance4web:  Movement Media’s NEW Video Dance Channel 

WHY CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOULD TWITTER

By Lisa Niedermeyer     

I AM ADDICTED TO TWITTER AND HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY.  It came to me at 2:30 A.M.     

I am a choreographer, therefore when it comes to structure that can be experimented with, in seemingly infinite ways…sign me up.     

Choreographers who understand the value of SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATIONS will appreciate Twitter’s “micro-blogging” limit of 140 characters. It is a fascinating challenge to communicate something potent, funny or informative in a sentence or less.     

INSTANT FEEDBACK.     

A definite factor in my addiction is the ability to track (instantly) responses to my posts. We don’t get that as choreographers very often. With bit.ly (a tool that allows you to “shorten, share, and track your links”) I am able to see which posts are duds and which are viral. I’m not saying I want an audience member to immediately tell me if my work engaged them or not, but in this format it is definitely an absorbing factor.         

The Twitter community is world wide. I want a vast range of people to discover my posts about the work I am doing as a choreographer and (hopefully) be interested. Each word inside a twitter post is searchable. You can also utilize keywords by “hashing” in front of them. For example #videodance #nonprofit #freetickets. The challenge is to create multiple posts around a specific “theme” using variations of words and keywords to optimize many different people discovering your feed.   

DIFFERING ENTRY POINTS.     

Installations, site specific work, and performances that cycle are often playing with differing entry points for the audience into choreography. Twitter feeds are never static, the order of your posts is continuously affected by your community’s simultaneous posts.     

Recently I posted an entire dance review in Twitter-bite-sized pieces spread out over the course of 24 hrs, with an active link to the full article in each tweet. For the sake of experimentation I created many pieces of something seemingly out of order/context to see if it engaged one to look for the larger picture.    

NEW TOOLS.   

Since Twitter has reached critical mass new tools are continously being created for the platform.  Perhaps most intriguing is relative newcomer Twiddeo, video for twitter.    

NEW LANGUAGE.   Choreographers are dedicated to experimenting with movement language and are often adept at learning new movement languages thru improvisation (rather than just instruction). To “cyber civilians” Twitter feeds can look like a Wall Street ticker tape or the coding for the Matrix. Don’t let this intimidate you, once you jump in and start improvising, observing, testing the language, you will be confident in no time (or right about 2:30 am after your first Twitter marathon).  

Are you a choreographer or media artist?   Have you been experimenting with structure on Twitter?  What has been successful or interesting for you?  We’d love to hear about your experiences and success stories promoting dance through video on Twitter.      

Do you share your original dance videos on twitter?    

Share your original dance videos on twitter with us @MovementMediaNY and we’ll Re-tweet (RT)!   

Movement Media wants to help increase your online viewing audience by promoting your work.  Feel free to nominate the work of others on Twitter, and we’ll also RT those videos.   

If you don’t have videos on Twitter, but you would like to view more video dances, you can follow Movement Media on Twitter to stay current with the artists and videos we feature.            

Follow MovementMediaNY on Twitter and stay up-to-date on events such as Movement Media’s screenings, festivals, workshops, and webinars.  You can also stay up-to-date on the weekly videodances and artists we feature on our new Video Dance Channel on YouTube in our  FilmingDance4web Playlists!   

As many artists feature their work on YouTube, Movement Media promotes artist videos on our YouTube channel as well.  Contact us to let us know about YouTube videos that we could feature for you.  Share your own dance promo videos, your videodances, or nominate other videodances you’ve seen on YouTube to share with our online audience.   

On FilmingDance4web, we feature dancers, dance companies, choreographers, film directors, video artists, and animation in our playlists.  Playlists inlcude Movement Media’s Favorite Videodances, Featured Artists, Featured Countries, Cheap Digital Recorder Art, Cell Phone Videodances, Aerial Dance, Gymnastics & Acrobatics, Trampoline, Fire performers, and more.  We celebrate all forms of dance and videodances.  Tune in and enjoy! 

We look forward to sharing your videos through Retweets and showcasing your work on our YouTube Video Dance Channel, FilmingDance4web.           

The Film Society of Lincoln Center
and Dance Films Association, Inc.
proudly present

Dance on Camera Festival
January 25 – February 2, 2010

Imago-by Alwin Nikolais

Co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, Movement Research since 2008, TenduTv and Mark Morris Dance Center since 2010, Dance On Camera Festival (DOCF) celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. Festival 2010 will include a tribute to Alwin Nikolais as part of a year long centennial celebration across the country in his honor.

2010 Schedule and NYC Locations of Dance on Camera Events

January 25, 7pm, Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn Read details

January 26, 7pm, Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC
event curated and co-sponsored by Movement Research Read details

January 28, 2pm, The Beacon School, 227 W 61st Street, NYC Read details

January 29-February 2, Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza
4 shows daily – see schedule

January 31, 1pm, Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Town Hall Meeting read details

Buy Tickets for screenings at the Walter Reade Theatre
Dance on Camera Festival 2010 Tickets:
$11 General Public
$9 Affiliate (Friends of DFA)
$8 Senior (62+)
$7 Film Society Member/ DFA Member/ Student/ Child

Three Program Sampler Pass:
$27 General Public
$21 Senior (62+)
$18 Film Society Member/ DFA Member/ Student
Admits one person to three programs in Dance On Camera.

Buy Tickets and Passes Online Now!

Tickets are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater Box Office,
165 West 65th St. between Amsterdam Avenue & Broadway,
and at CenterCharge, 212-721-6500.

Read Festival Blog by Artistic Director

See which artists scheduled to appear

During the 2010 Dance on Camera Festival, Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theatre will house an installation, “The Tiny Dance Film Series” a collaboration between choreographer Peter Kyle and sound artist James Bigbee Garver that consists of very short and very small dance films screened in 4 darkened kiosks for an audience of one.

Susan Braun began this festival in 1971 to connect dance film producers with users and distributors, to spur dancers on to preserve their work on film and to be open to filmmakers wishing to make documentaries about them and/or to collaborate on screen adaptations of their choreography. For almost twenty years, DFA’s Festival was the sole showcase dedicated to dance films in the world. For the last ten years, DFA’s Festival has offered a revenue source for the dance filmmakers through their tours.

“The Dance on Camera Festival is one of those NY stealth events, prized by its devotees…where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic” John Rockwell, The New York Times

The Dance on Camera Festival 2010 is sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Canadian Consulate General, French Cultural Service, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, American Airlines, Mark Morris Dance Center, TenduTv, Gotham Wine and Liquors, Ariston Florist, New York Women in Film and Television, and the members of DFA. See full list of sponsors

The program for the digital component of Dance on Camera Festival hosted by Tendu.TV will be announced shortly.

Join the fun!

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India

At Dance on Camera Festival: 

The documentary Nrityagram: ‘For the Love of Dance’ tells the story of the Nrityagram Dance Village, and the Dance Ensemble that has made it world famous.

 NRITYAGRAM: FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE World Premiere
 

Nan Melville, USA, 2009, 26M

This painterly portrait of an idyllic dance village near Bangalore offers a taste of the Indian dance style, Odissi.

Protima Bedi institutionalized classical Indian dance through the founding of Nrityagram; a “gurukul” where students could dance and live in close proximity with their master guru.

The internationally renowned Nrityagram Dance Ensemble continues to expand on Protima’s legacy; lead dancer and choreographer, Surupa Sen and Odissi Gurukul Director, Bijayini Satpathy have expanded the language of the traditional Odissi dance through the incorporation of choreographic techniques adapted from world dance. The Ensemble continues to push the boundaries of Indian dance and to perform to worldwide acclaim.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Q & A with director Nan Melville and choreographer Mark Morris, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group, to follow screening.

Based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the Mark Morris Dance Center fulfills the mission of the Mark Morris Dance Group to serve as a cultural resource to engage and enrich the community.

For directions, please see www.mmdg.org/directions.

We are interested in learning about the Media Marketing needs of dancers and their interests in creating Dance for Camera.

By participating in this survey, you can help us improve services to artists, and help us share your  specific ambitions, requests, concerns, and support needs to the dance community at large.

This survey is designed for artists of all levels of experience.  Even if you have not done much pertaining to Media Marketing, Film, or Video, we ask that you participate in this survey, so we can learn more about you.

Results of this survey will be posted on our blog, Move the Frame, in January 2010 to provide artists an opportunity to ask questions, share comments, and continue a dialogue pertaining to Media Marketing and Dance for Camera.

This Survey will Help us Learn More About the Following Areas:

• Media Marketing: What do dancers need to improve self promotion through media to increase audience numbers for live performances?  We want to learn who needs assistance with improving websites, search engine marketing, online press releases, and social networking.

• Dance for Camera Production: Which artists want to produce dance for camera (films and videodances)?  Who needs education on the basics of film making to produce work?  What kind of film would you like to create?  How can we help you get started?

• Promotional Video Production: Which artists need assistance with moving through all of the stages of video production for promotional videos or for instructional dance videos?  Who needs help with planning, strategizing, editing, and distribution to guarantee that these videos are seen by large audiences?

CLICK HERE to Take Artist Survey

We thank you for your participation!

Leaders in Dance Media

Join us at this year’s APAP Convention in NYC

MONDAY, January 11th  9:00-10:00 am

The session will be at the Sheraton NY in Conference Room C
Sheraton NY Hotel & Towers
811 Seventh Avenue
NYC 10019

‘Success Stories Promoting Dance with Video’

A panel discussion for dance artists and presenters on how to use dance videos effectively to acquire bookings and develop audiences.

Register today!

https://www.apapconference-nyc.com/secure/AttFirstPage.asp

Meet the Panel of Dance Media Experts

Sydney Skybetter, from Design Brooklyn will moderate this panel discussion.  Design Brooklyn is a unique team of team of designers, programmers, and strategists helping people craft their presence on and off-line.  Due to Sydney’s experience working in dance media, and his well received presentation “Less Overhead/Better Marketing” at the Dance/USA Conference this year, Movement Media is honored to have Sydney lead this discussion and moderate this impressive panel of experts.  Learn more about the  innovative and strategic services Sydney offers at Design Brooklyn.

Kristin Sloan, during her professional career as a dancer for New York City Ballet, and later as the Director of New Media for NYCB, Ms. Sloan began to further explore her interest in the intersection of art and technology. In 2005 she launched the website TheWinger.com, currently home to over 30 dancers, choreographers, teachers, and experts who write about their life and experiences as a part of the dance world. Ms. Sloan’s work on The Winger has lead to speaking engagements, writing assignments and a national television commercial for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, in which she speaks about the site. She is frequently cited in articles on dance and technology, and was interviewed for Allen P. Adamson’s recent book “Brand Digital”.  Check out her latest work at Kristin Sloan.com.

Marc Kirschner is the founder and General Manager of TenduTV. TenduTV will be distributing content through 70 top digital platforms, including iTunes, Hulu, CinemaNow and Comcast’s Fancast.com. These partners and others will enable audiences to consume and purchase dance content on 200 million devices in 10 countries, including iPods, TiVos, Blu-Ray players and internet-enabled televisions. Kirschner oversees TenduTV’s content acquisition efforts and distribution partnerships, and works closely with industry leaders to ensure the protection of dance in the digital age. Kirschner created the concept of digital licensing for choreography and executed the first such licensing deals in the dance industry. 

LARRY KEIGWIN’s prolific and wide-ranging dance career began the day he auditioned as a back-up dancer for Downtown Julie Brown on Club MTV (he got the gig).  Today he is the Artistic Director of KEIGWIN + COMPANY.  K+C is committed to creating work that is accessible and entertaining while remaining innovative and intelligent.

In addition to Larry’s choreographic work with K+C, his recent commissions have included The New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, The Martha Graham Dance Company, The Juilliard Dance Ensemble, The NYU/Tisch School’s Second Avenue Dance Company, Paradigm, Hofstra University and California Institute of the Arts.  His other choreographic credits include work with the pop band Fischerspooner, comedian Murray Hill and as an Associate Choreographer for both the The Radio City Rockettes and the Off-Broadway musical “The Wild Party”.  As a dancer Larry has danced at the Metropolitan Opera in Doug Varone’s “Le Sacre Du Printemps” and Julie Taymor’s “The Magic Flute” in addition to his work with Mark Dendy (receiving a Bessie Award in 1998 for his performance in “Dream Analysis”), Robin Becker, Jane Comfort, John Jasperse, Doug Elkins, Zvi Gotheiner, and David Rousseve.  He appeared in the Broadway bomb “Dance of the Vampires” and the Julie Taymor, Oscar nominated film “Across the Universe.”  In his spare time, Larry has created “Keigwin Kabaret,” a fusion of modern dance, vaudeville, and burlesque acts presented by the Public Theater at Joe’s Pub and by Symphony Space.

Movement Media is excited to present a panel of Dance Media Experts who share innovative ways to promote dance with video at this year’s APAP Convention. 

We look forward to seeing you there! 

Jody Oberfelder dance

Attend Movement Media’s Special Interest Session at This year’s Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference in NYC.

Tuesday, January 12th

9:00-10:00 am

‘Success Stories Promoting Dance with Video’.

A panel discussion for dance artists and presenters on how to use dance videos effectively to acquire bookings and develop audiences.

Boris Willis by Paul Emerson

Sydney Skybetter, from Design Brooklyn will moderate this panel discussion.  Due to Sydney’s experience, and his well received presentation “Less Overhead/Better Marketing” at the Dance/USA Conference this year, Movement Media feels there is a lot of information for audience members to learn from Sydney and this impressive panel of experts.

Register today!

https://www.apapconference-nyc.com/secure/AttFirstPage.asp

Daft Bodies

Location of APAP Conference:

Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

We look forward to seeing you at the panel discussion!